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Laura is a Tax Manager at ForrestBrown, where she supports a broad range of clients with R&D tax relief and Patent Box. Based in ForrestBrown's Bristol office, she is CTA qualified and passionate about helping innovative businesses access reliefs and incentives.

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Hemma specializes in supporting U.S. citizens with their U.S. and UK tax reporting obligations, also offering comprehensive advisory services to help clients remain compliant across both jurisdictions. Hemma is known for her practical, client-focused approach and her ability to navigate the complexities of cross-border taxation.

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Ian Maston is a Partner at Gabelle LLP. He is a non-practising Solicitor and a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. He has spent almost 20 years advising on all aspects of inheritance tax, trust taxation and estate planning. He is the author of Tolley's UK Taxation of Trusts and Hutton on Estate Planning, and provides specialist monthly tax updates to tax practitioners and lawyers through the Monthly Tax Review.

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A Chartered Tax Advisor specialising in international private clients, advising expats and high-net-worth individuals and families with complex cross-border affairs. Jamie focuses on UK and international tax planning, including the Foreign Income & Gains (FIG) regime, residency planning, former remittance basis users, non-dom transition rules, and global wealth structuring.

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Oliver John was previously at Mazars for just more than five years where he provided tax and share valuation advice to a range of businesses with regards to share transactions. In his role as director at Azets, Oliver will continue to share tax advice with clients over the life of a business, from companies looking to raise capital to shareholders looking to exit.

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Shanzé has recently joined Old Square Tax Chambers as a barrister advising in all areas of tax. Shanzé has worked on various income tax and corporation tax matters. She has also worked on issues involving SDLT, VAT and domicile. She contributes to Tolley's Tax Planning.

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With over a decade of experience as a tax advisor, I specialize in VAT, indirect taxes and customs. Trilingual in French, English and German, I advise clients from start-ups to multinational groups on complex cross-border transactions within the EU and beyond. Working in collaboration with the PKF International network, I bring practical insight and an international perspective to my work and publications.

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Mira Rajanti is a VAT Tax Manager dedicated to helping businesses master the complexities of value-added taxation. With working experience from the Finnish Tax Administration and the private sector, Mira possesses a broad understanding of Finnish VAT legislation and tax practices. Mira is happy to assist businesses with various applications, tax audits, appeals, as well as VAT registrations and reporting. She contributes to Tolley and PKFs Global and EU VAT title.

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Espen is based in Norway, and specialises in tax law. He has extensive experience in corporate taxation, international tax, taxation of high-net-worth individuals, and tax-related aspects of transactions, restructurings, investment funds, real estate development, incentive programs and earn-outs.

Espen is ranked in Chambers Europe, Legal 500 and Who’s Who Legal.

He co-authored the Tolley's Global Corporate Taxes guide for Norway.

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Jeremy is an experienced employee share schemes and corporate lawyer with more than 13 years' experience in advising companies of all sizes in relation to their corporate and employee share scheme requirements. He advises on the design and implementation of employee incentive arrangements for private and public companies, including all types of tax-advantaged schemes and unapproved arrangements for senior executives, management and the general workforce.

 He also advises on the share scheme related aspects of corporate transactions and has particular expertise in employee shareholder status. Prior to co-founding Cooper Cavendish, Jeremy was an Associate Director in the Incentives team at international legal practice, Osborne Clarke LLP, which he joined in 2013. Prior to this, Jeremy was a Senior Associate in the corporate team at Osborne Clarke LLP, where he led a broad range of transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, disposals, joint-ventures and company start-ups. Jeremy has advised many companies on constitutional issues and has extensive experience of drafting constitutional documents including articles of association and shareholders' agreements.

Jeremy trained and qualified as a solicitor in September 2004 and has undertaken a number of secondments, including acting as in-house corporate counsel for Zurich Financial Services and has also advised on a key client relationship management project for Osborne Clarke LLP.

Jeremy is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Organisation and was a speaker at the 2016 annual conference. In 2016 he formed part of a Committee of the Share Plan Lawyers Organisation which has reviewed and provided comments on the HM Revenue & Customs Share Schemes Manuals

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Radek is a team leader of APOGEO Indirect Tax team.

Radek specializes in VAT with five years’ experience of advising small and medium size companies on various VAT matters. His sector expertise includes cross-border VAT issues, real estate development, Healthcare Sector and nonprofit organizations.

Radek and his team are ensuring that APOGEO clients are always VAT compliant providing a wide range of related services such as tax memorandums, due diligence and internal audits, VAT registrations etc.

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Morag is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Accountants in England and Wales and an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Governance, with almost thirty years’ experience in advising clients on accounting and tax matters. Morag has a wealth of experience and knowledge, specifically of the healthcare sector [private and NHS], with over 25 years working with clients across all aspects of healthcare provision.

Based in Armstrong Watson’s Leeds office, Morag is a partner and head of the specialist Healthcare Services Team. Morag leads by example and ensures her team all adopt a proactive approach to developing and managing robust client relationships. “Understanding our clients’ aspirations enables us to share timely and relevant advice with them, and where appropriate, affording time to implement mitigating action to minimise any potential financial risk”.

With regards to the healthcare sector, Armstrong Watson is a member of AISMA [Association of Independent Specialist Medical Accountants], a strategic partner to the MDU / DDU, listed as a specialist medical accountant and tax advisor with Medics Money and a member of the UK200 Healthcare Group, all of which demonstrate our expertise in this field.

Morag contributes to Tolley’s Tax Planning and to TolleyGuidance OMB.

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Ventsislav (Venzi) Vassilev is the Senior Strategist and founder of PKF Bulgaria and has a strong background and experience in the accountancy and tax consultancy sector. Mr Vassilev is a graduate of the University of Bristol in the UK in Economics and Accounting and started his career with Arthur Andersen & Co in the early 90s. Then in 1995 he founded Rex Consulting - a fast growing group of consultancy companies in Bulgaria which in 2014  joined the network of PKF International.

Venzi Vassilev has extensive experience in consulting and assisting foreign investors in Bulgaria. He leads a team of multilingual professional accountants, lawyers, financiers, business experts and administrative assistants. Under his leadership the team has created a company culture of a welcoming and informal atmosphere which is combined with a strong commitment to the client's business.

Currently PKF Bulgaria and the Rex Consulting group of companies have four offices in Bulgaria (Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna and Bansko); all of the offices are registered as separate entities. Rex Consulting Ltd also has a subsidiary in London  that specializes in asset management.

Mr Vassilev has been retired from his CEO position  since 2019 and remains the chairman of the supervisory board of the Rex Consulting Group. He continues to advise the firm's key clients on various strategic investment and financial issues.

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John Holland is a Stock Market expert with over 25 years’ experience advising companies about stock market flotation in the UK. His focus is steering companies through the flotation and fundraising process on AIM (The Alternative Investment Market), The London Stock Exchanges Main Market (Standard and Premium sectors), and other UK stock markets such as Aquis. He is a regular author on UK stock market flotation related subjects and has chaired or presented over 70 conferences and seminars about stock market topics in the UK and overseas.

John is Managing Director of Holland Bendelow, the UK’s longest established stock market flotation consultants. The firm specialises in taking companies from feasibility stage through to a successful flotation. Holland Bendelow’s clients range in size from early stage growth companies to large global brands valued at £1b plus. The firm advises on pre-IPO fundraisings, IPO fundraisings, Cash Shell transactions (reverse takeovers), enhancing company valuation, stock market regulation, effective investor relation strategies and other flotation related areas.

Prior to Holland Bendelow, John held senior roles at The London Stock Exchange, including Head of UK regional operations, with responsibility for the AIM Stock Market and The Main Market. He was heavily involved in the growth of AIM from its inception to becoming established as the world’s most successful growth market. John also led The London Stock Exchange’s Regional Advisory Groups, who play a key role in formulating future stock market strategies.

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Have worked in VAT since 1974. Joined HMRC and worked there for 15 years before joining Grant Thornton. Currently working in the National Tax Office of Grant Thornton providing technical help and knowledge management to the Grant Thornton VAT practice.

My specialism is VAT & Aircraft and I have a portfolio of aviation clients ranging from owners of private jets, to air operators, fixed based operators, aircraft engineers and freelance pilots.

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Passionate about tax, Edwin has since his graduation, accumulated more than two decades of professional experience in both international and Singapore taxation arenas. Throughout his career, Edwin has gained a wealth of experience and is equipped with extensive knowledge in providing advisory and compliance services covering all key areas of taxation: Corporate Tax, Individual Tax, Goods and Services Tax, Transfer Pricing and Stamp Duty, making him a proficient tax advisor for issues which cut across a spectrum of taxation matters.

Edwin has, in his current capacity and past employment with top tier international accounting firms, served multinational companies, publicly listed and private companies spanning various industries such as trading, manufacturing, construction, property development, shipping, oil and gas, information technology, media and advertising, pharmaceutical, hospitality, logistics, investment, fund management and private wealth services.

Edwin also enriched his experience during his stint in a regional headquarter of a French MNC, giving him a deep appreciation of tax issues from the clients’ perspective.

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Matthew has over 21 years’ experience gained in big4 practice, he joined BDO UK LLP as a Partner in May 2022 to lead the Customs, Excise and International Trade team.

Matthew focuses on providing advisory and compliance services to drive operational and duty efficiencies for businesses which import, manufacture, pack, distribute and export goods both within the UK and globally.

He has a particular interest in businesses within the Alcohol industry working with micro producers to global brands alike, gaining practical experience (even driven a forklift) on secondment to a UK production and distribution warehouse of a major brand.

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Ian is a Director of PKF and is part of our specialist Taxation team in Sydney.

With 35 years of combined accounting and financial industry experience, Ian has been a Director specialising in Indirect Taxes at a big four firm, Asia Pacific Regional Indirect Tax Manager for a US multinational and the Chief Financial Officer at a funds management firm.

Ian specialises in Indirect Taxes including, GST, customs duty, payroll tax and employment taxes generally.

Ian works closely with his clients to assist in complying with Indirect Tax obligations in Australia and across the Asia Pacific.

Ian is a contributing author to the Australia country guide in Tolley’s Global VAT.